(Ed.'s Note: The newest wrinkle at the local Walmart is a parking space at the very front of the store reserved for local law enforcement, that is, local cops. The space is as close as the handicapped spaces are to the doors.
We wonder whether the local boys in blue have the time to do a little shopping between shifts or if the practise is even condoned by the main Chief Of Police (COP) at the Brownsville Police Dept.
What would an on-duty officer need during his shift? An extra box of ammo? Maybe a throw-down gun? A section of rubber hose to elicit information from recalcitrant suspects? Or perhaps they need some Brasso to polish up the badges?
Well, the reader who sent us this photo said that the woman in slacks who alighted from this car parked in the special space was not in uniform and did not appear to be a police officer, although one can never tell.
That brings up another interesting question: How can Walmart staff tell that it's a law enforcement type parking in the space? And if they aren't what are they going to do? Call the cops on them?